Abandoned

About Abandoned

In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, bound for Tonga with four crew. After a freak wave capsized the yacht, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.

John Laing's Abandoned is a 2016 thriller film. Its themes are disaster, sea, ship, and boat.

Dominic Purcell appears as Jim, Peter Feeney as John, Owen Black as Rick, and Siobhan Marshall as Martha. It runs 86 minutes and was released in March 2016.

The screenplay is by Stephanie Johnson. Produced by Making Movies. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV in the United States.

In the Heart of the Sea, The Poseidon Adventure, and A Night to Remember make useful companions to Abandoned, all filed under death. TMDB voters put it at 5.9 out of 10 across 137 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.